The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office collected almost 100 pounds of unused and expired prescription medications during a national drug “take-back” initiative Saturday.

The sheriff’s office collected prescription and over-the-counter drugs, anonymously, with no questions asked, at the sheriff’s office, the Buford Recreation Center and the sheriff’s office substations in Kershaw and Indian Land from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As this year’s political season begins to rev up, both candidates for the District 45 House seat are addressing the top issues on voters’ minds – education and the economy. Republican incumbent Deborah Long, who won the seat in 2008, is facing off against newcomer and longtime educator Democrat Mary Bernsdorff.

District 45 covers territory from the city of Lancaster north to Indian Land and the northern portion of York County, including Fort Mill.

The Andrew Jackson High School volleyball team captured the silver bracket at the North Central High School volleyball tournament on Saturday.

The Lady Vols won three straight matches to claim the crown.

The Volunteers struggled in the tourney’s opening pool matches, but came to life in the silver bracket, winning matches over Class AAA Crestwood High of Sumter and region foe Indian Land before defeating A.C. Flora High of Columbia for the championship.

For Missouri’s Sara Evans, every little piece of the puzzle doesn’t always fit.

But it’s a puzzle that she’s putting back together.

Sidelined by a bitter divorce in 2006 after 13 years of marriage, the traditional singer whose heartfelt songs hit close to home will perform inside the Bundy Auditorium at the University of South Carolina at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Since arriving on Nashville’s Music Row in the early 1990s, the soulful Evans has put together a string of hits that is hard to match.

I like this Saturday retirement stuff, well, most of the time, anyway.

These days, Saturday means everybody is at home, which lessens my great-granddad duties, to a degree.

Clad in a white T-shirt and khaki shorts with those two-sizes-too-large bedroom shoes on my feet, I was just about settled in my favorite away-from-home chair when something dragged me back into reality.

I had gotten comfortable and just closed my eyes when I heard my sweet wife’s bull horn.

Each weekday morning, a group of men meet inside the Humana Cafeteria on Main Street to discuss the ills of the world, the weather, college football, crime and politics between sips of hot coffee.

“This is one of the places I get my marching orders from,” said Lancaster Mayor Joe Shaw, who is a “first-shift regular,” along with Charlie Bundy, Larry Cauthen, former Sheriff Wilford Faile and Donald Hunter.

They arrive some time between 7:30 and 8 a.m. and leave just before 9 a.m. when the “second shift” reports in.

KERSHAW – Kershaw Hog Jam is set for Oct. 8 and 9. The annual event will have music and entertainment and a barbecue cookoff.

The festivities will start at 6 p.m. Oct. 8 when the Mighty Kicks will perform.

Festivities start at 10 a.m. Oct. 9. There will be music all day long. Crooked Creek will play and there will be other entertainment. A horseshoe tournament will be going on throughout the day. There will also be health screenings provided by Kershaw Health.

Buford blasted visiting North Central 53-13 to make BHS homecoming 2010 a blast in front of a packed house at Jackets Stadium on Friday night.

Buford, 2-2, jumped to a 20-0 lead midway the second quarter and seemed ready to cruise into halftime, but the Knights answered with two scores in just under four minutes to close the gap to seven, 20-13, with 2:32 left in the half.

Buford answered NC’s charge with a score at the end of the first half to lead 26-13 and cruised to the 40-point win.